Aurélien Recoing (born 5 May 1958) is a French actor and stage director.

Personal life

Aurélien Recoing is the son of (puppeteer), and the brother of (director and translator), Blaise Recoing (actor and musician), and David Recoing (pianist, composer). Born in Paris on May 5, 1958, Aurélien Recoing began training to be an actor in 1974 at

Cours Florent The Cours Florent is a private French drama school in Paris established in 1967 by François Florent. The school is located on three nearby sites in the XIXe arrondissement, 19th Arrondissements of Paris, arrondissement of Paris, France: rue Arc ...

, and studied at Quartier d'Ivry. In 1977, the actor-in-training, who spoke fluent English and a little Russian, joined the

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in Paris, where he studied under

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and

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. He has appeared in more than 30 plays and has directed stage performances of works by

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and

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. He was awarded the in 1989. In 1980, Aurélien Recoing took his first steps into the world of cinema, in ''Exploits of a Young Don Juan''. Finding art-house cinema appealing to him, he worked with

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on ''Emergency Kisses'' (''Les baisers de secours''), and with

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on ''Modern Life''. The actor rose to fame in 2001 thanks to

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's ''

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'' (''L'Emploi du Temps''), in which he plays a man who invents a false life to avoid having to tell his friends and family that he has been fired from his job. As he became more and more in demand, he alternated between blockbusters such as ''Ruby & Quentin'' and ''That Woman'' and art-house films like ''L'Ennemi naturel'' and ''Orlando Vargas''. Lending his talents to a number of unusual projects, in 2006 he portrayed a gamblers in ''

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'',

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's black-and-white thriller, and also appeared in ''Forgive Me'' (''Pardonnez-moi''),

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's home-movie style drama. In the same year, the physically imposing actor found himself transported back to 1914 France in ''Fragments of Antonin'', and then to 1959 Kabylia in

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's '' Intimate Enemies''. In 2008, he starred in ' ''Paris Nord-Sud'' and in ''La Saison des Orphelins''. The following year, he was cast in

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's crime thriller ''Diamant 13'' with

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, and in

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's ''Tomorrow at Dawn'' (''Demain dès l'aube''). He has made appearances in '' The Horde'', directed by and , ' ''Joseph and the Girl'' with

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, and 's ''Cargo, the Lost Men'' in 2010. He appeared in

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's ''Switch'', as well as in 's '' Kill Me Please'', which won the ''Marc'Aurelio d'Oro'' for best film at

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in 2010. He also appeared in

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's ''Blue is the Warmest Colour'', which took the

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. In 2020 he appeared in ''Adults in the room''. An upcoming appearance is in ''Grand Ciel'' an Arte Film. He made his first short film as a director ''The Rifleman'' (''Un Bon Tireur'') which won an Award Winner for Best Drama in 2021. He is developing his first feature film ''Naked Hands'' (''À Mains Nues'') with Sensito Films Productions.

Theatre

Filmography

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Recoing, Aurelien French male film actors 1958 births Living people French male television actors French National Academy of Dramatic Arts alumni Cours Florent alumni 20th-century French male actors 21st-century French male actors French male stage actors French theatre directors Male actors from Paris